Latin Dance Club

Press Releases

Year	Date	Newspaper	Heading	Text	Paper Cut Out

2000	24th April	PuneTimes	SALSA TIME	On the dance floor were Vijay and SHELLY who put on a sizzlingsalsa performance.

2000	20th August	PuneTimes	LET THE NIGHT BE LATINO	Ace dancer-instructor VIJAY ATHMA OF THE Latin Dance Club, gets ready to lead his first batch to the floor at Talwalkar’s Gym (camp branch).

2001	27th March	Pune Newsline	SANTIAGO’S FIESTA LATIN	Brought to Pune by santiago’s first Cuban style rum(say the organizers)the Latino experience meant a lot of people dancing to Latino music , with DJ Cawas and a performance by Vijay Athma along with his troupe.

2001	27th March	Pune Times	LATINO STRIKES AGAIN	The truly catchy music inspired by VIJAY ATHMA and his Latin Dance Club to put on two sensuous dance performances which included the Salsa, Cha Cha and Samba.

2001	21stMay	PuneTimes	US TWO OW! MAMA MIA	As every Latino Nite has it, salsa performers VIJAY and SHELLY put up another sensuous dance act setting the mood for the ramba , the salsa, the cha cha and the mambo as DJ Navin took over and dished out precisely that.

2001	24thMay	Pune Newsline	LATINO NIGHT	The recently held ‘let the night be latino’ was an experience that had an essence of Latin American culture with foot tapping Latino numbers belted out by DJ Navin , DJ Farhan and an exhilarating performance by Vijay Athma along with his troupe.

2002		Pune Newsline	DANCE TO THE BODY MUSIC	He confesses to having choreographed a disco sequence in the Hrithik Roshan film Na Tum Jano Na Hum . “ The scene was shot at Blue Diamond’s Club Polaris and I choreographed about 20 youngsters who had to dance around Hrithik Roshan. The style used was club dancing with a mélange of steps,” he says

2002	27thApril	Bangalore Times	LETS DO THE CHA CHA CHA	They will also conduct Salsa, merengue, Jive and Cha Cha workshops over seven days for one – and – a – half hour each day, in which each student will learn two Latin American dances.

2002	24thSeptember	Pune Newsline	SIZZLE TO THE SALSA BEAT	Simply Salsa : Vijay Athma demonstrates a Latin American dance move .

2002	29thSeptember	TurfRaceCard	THE GANGA SATELLITE TROPHY	A live performance by vijay athma’s troupe of the sensuous Latin samba to the rhythm of drums.

2002	30thSeptember	Indian Express	SALSA, OF COURSE	Vijay Athma and troupe enthralled race goers on Sunday with a live performance at the pune race course.

2002	30thSeptember	Pune Newsline	SALSA, OF COURSE	Setting the salsa beat for members and special invitees at the pune race course on Sunday were vivacious members of Vijay Athma’s troupe, performing before the ganga satellite trophy.

2002	12thNovember	Pune Newsline	SANTIAGO

2002	24thDecember	Hyderabad Times	SALSA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN	Watch India’s hottest Salsa Duo perform live.

2002		Pune Times	HOT STEPPERS	The event was judged by Shelly and Vijay of ‘Latin Dance Club ‘ fame…

2003	30thApril	Pune Newsline	OLE! OLE!	It’s Latino time at shisha café tonight ! great fun indeed , as kids of gymbaroo-The Kangaroo Kids Club (aged 5-12 years ) will present performances of the Latin dances , rhumba and Merengue that they learnt through their summer sessions with Vijay and Shelly Athma’s Latin Dance Club.

2003	2ndMay	Pune Newsline	LATINO ALL THE WAY!	Training at a summer session Vijay and Shelly athma’s Latin Dance Club , the rapping up of this event brought on yet another exciting party for the students of the Latin Dance Club .

2003	7thMay	Pune Newsline	LATIN TRANCE	That’s right , VIJAY ATHMA’S Latin Dance Club has decided to give its students a platform to perform and tonight they are bound to make the most of it.

2003	7thMay	Pune Times	LATINO!	From 12 year olds to those in their 30s , Vijay Athma’s students spanned every age and as he danced the night away with wife shelly , their students showed off those salsa moves , jives and sensuous merengue.

2003	9thMay	Pune Newsline	OLE	A peppy weekend it sure turned out to be for the members of Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance Club (LDC).

2003	June	Citadel Pune	PLACE FOR THOUGHT	For Latino dancer Vijay Athma music and dance is the rhythm of life and his Latin dance Club just believes in dancing the blues away.

2003	23rdJuly	Pune Newsline	SALSA SPECIAL	Get ready to groove to the salsa on july 23 with Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance Club.

2003	25thJuly	Pune Times	LATINO SWING	VIJAY ATHMA’S Latin Dance school’s latest batch saw plenty of action recently.

2003	2ndAugust	Pune Mid Day	LATIN RHYTHMS	Vijay Athma, a well known Latin dancer, set the floor on fire with his moves , and he made sure everyone else moved with him! Cha-cha , merengue and salsa…. You name it and he had ‘em dancing in no time.

2003	1stSeptember	Pune Times	DANCE ALL NIGHT	It was one sizzling night as VIJAY ATHMA’S dance club celebrated its three year anniversary with a scintillating display of Latin Dance which included dance forms like Rumba, Salsa, cha-cha-cha , jive , rueda and the merengue.

2003	2ndSeptember	PuneNewsline	TOTALLY GROOVY	The reason was the third birthday of Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance Club (LDC).As 100 students from the LDC stormed the stage presenting a variety of dances including the merengue, Chachacha, Rueda and Jive, the audience was a happy lot.

2003	20thDecember	Pune Street Guardian	TIME FOR SALSA	So before this year comes to an end, if you want to sway to latin music this new years eve then you can learn some salsa with Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance Club from 22nd to 27th dec.

2004	19thFebruary	Pune Times	IN STEP WITH SALSA	Says Vijay “ any dance will pick up at places where it is promoted, and we are heavily promoting Latin Dance in Pune .

2004	8thMarch	Pune Times	IN STEP WITH LATINO	It was a fun filled evening on Friday with Latino as the theme for the evening. Samba and the other latin numbers , with pulsating sounds , mesmerized the 300 plus crowd at a five star club in the city . by the looks of it pune definitely seemed to be on the head rush for fun.

2004	May	PuneCityScape	LIFE STYLE LEARNING LATIN !	Popular club dances include those of Latin American genre-salsa, jive, merengue, rumba, hip-hop, samba and cha-cha –cha, to name a few.

2004	14thJune	Pune Newsline	CREATIVITY	Creativity needs its inspiration , its freedom, its own room . city artistes talk of their most cherished and motivating nooks…We have video screenings here , brain storming sessions and besides , dancing with vijay here is so special

2004	July	Citadel Pune	WINDS OF CHANGE	I teach salsa, jive, merengue, rumba, cha-cha-cha and the samba.

2004	31stJuly	Pune Newsline	THE SALSA REMIX	For as part of the Latin Dance school’s fourth year anniversary celebrations, they will bring to life the sensuous Salsa to a remix version of Chod do Aanchal and the rumba to Bheege honth Tere.

2004	2ndAugust	Pune Newsline	DANCE WITH ME	The rumba, cha cha, jive, meringue and of course the hot favourite salsa were top orders at the garden court, The Taj Blue Diamond on Saturday evening at the Latin Dance Club’s fourth anniversary celebrations.

2004	3rdAugust	Pune Times	HERE COME THE HOTSTEPPERS	Then of course was the finale in the form of a romantic extempore on marc anthony’s nome ames that had the dancing duo of Vijay and Shelly Athma doing quite a number on the audience.

2004	6thAugust	MidDay Pune	‘1,2, CHA CHA CHA ..’	Vijay Athma, a student of wellknown dancer Ewa Maria Cherukuru, who runs a Latin American dance school in the city, said that the response to the academy had been steadily growing ever since he opened his academy four years ago.

2004	7thAugust	PuneTimes	LOVE ON THE DANCE FLOOR	Latin dance instructor; Vijay Athma, who met his soul mate Shelly on the dance floor and later married her, says it was never love at first sight for the couple.

2004	12thSeptember	Maharashtra Herald	ON THE MOVE	Vijay Athma, dance instructor and founder of the Latin Dance Club, speaks on how he has successfully managed to infect quite a few puneites with the salsa bug.

2004	November	PuneTimes	HOT STEPPERS	The event was judged by VIJAY and SHELLY of ‘Latin Dance Club’ fame.

2004	30thNovember	Pune Newsline	WALTZ WITH ME	At Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance Club, classes in koregaon park and in aundh, teachers are already working overtime.

2004	19thDecember	Pune Newsline	LATINO BEATS	As another year comes to an end, Vijay Athma and Shelly’s Latin Dance Club are doing their last workshop for 2004, with a Xmas touch.

2004	23rdDecember	Pune Newsline	VIJAY ATHMA	Founder, Latin Dance Club It’s one time when there is lots of festive happiness, when we have many learners picking up the Latin American Dance steps to set the foot tapping on new year eve’s.

2005	March	CitadelPune	FOOTLOOSE	Dancing is the best stress buster! People want to get away from the daily grunge and grind “, says Vijay Athma whose Latin Dance Club at Koregaon Park is a rage amongst middle-agedcouples!“

2005	24thMarch	PuneTimes	BURN THE FLOOR WITH ATHMA	Shake a lag with the singing sensation Athma as he performs from his debut album

2005	26thMarch	Maharashtra Herald	REVEALING VIJAY’S ATHMA	Having perfected and practiced salsa mirange and jive for 12 long years, Vijay decided to become a dance instructor and started and started his Latin Dance School five years ago. “Dancing is the best stress buster! People want to get away from the daily grunge and grind,” says Vijay Athma whose Latin Dance Club at Koregaon Park is a rage amongst middle-aged couples!

2005	1stMay	Maharashtra Herald	LATINO TWIST	Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance Club celebrated International Dance Day and the club members, their guests and even parents made it a point to not miss out on this one

2005	3rdMay	Pune Times	HOT MIX OF SALSA AND SAMBA	The Crowd loved the Latin Dance competition as each group tried to out do the others.

2005	9thMay	BombayTimes	EAR FOR MUSIC	His debut album is a result of his passion for Latin music , which is evident not just not just in the song but also in the videowhich has elements of salsa, cha-cha-cha, jive and rumba.

2005	25thMay	The Hindu Times,Hyd	FROM THE ‘SOUL’	Athma’s background in choreography is a direct result of his collaboration with Shelly Arora for a dance training Institute called Latin Dance Club in Pune.

2005	27thJuly	Bombay Times	IT’S TIME FOR WAR!	The performers for the night were V super singer Ravindra, Akruti, Raghav and VIJAY ATHMA

2005	7thSeptember	Maharashtra Herald	SALSA CURRY	Vijay Athma’s Latin Dance club ( LDC ) is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year,….. So there’s going to be salsa, merengue, samba, rueda, cha cha cha, rumba and jive…

2005	26th September	PuneNewsline	PUT ON YOUR DANCING SHOES	Catch the Salsa Fever at the Latin Dance Club

2005	26thSeptember	Maharashtra Herald	SWINGIN’ TO LATINO TUNES	From Jive to Salsa to Rumba and Chachacha sequences, the students of LDC put up brilliant performances.

2005	27th September	Maharashtra Herald	GROOVY NIGHT	Saturday Night rocked at Polaris. The ‘Salsa Nite’ organized by Abid’s and Aries Events saw a good performance by Vijay Athma and students of his Latin Dance club….

2005	6th October	Pune Times	A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!	Starry Cake : Abid, Karan, Annabelle, Vijay Athma with wife Shelly

2005	4th November	Pune Newsline	DANCE THE BODY MUSIC	The Latin Dance Club – run by Shelly and Vijay Athma, who have been dancing together since 1993 – recently celebrated its fifth anniversary….The different dance styles taught here include Sasla, ChaChaCha, Jive, Merengue, Rumba, Samba and Rueda.

2005	28thNovember	Maharashtra Herald	MOVES AND CURVES	Vijay Athma’s students put up spirited performances and the crowd simply loved their twists and turns as they did the Salsa, Chachacha, Rumba and other Latin American dances.

2005	December	CafeCoffeeDay	TOP 10 SONGS	Thoya Thoya Vijay Athma

2005	25thDecember	Maharashtra Herald	FLOOR’EM ALL	We roped in Latin American dance expert Vijay Athma for a crash course in dancing. His tips on the basic of Salsa will surely be of help if you practice them.

2006	12thMay	PuneNewsline	CARRY ON DANCING	Join the World Dance Day Latin Dance Competition on Sunday

2006	18thMay	PuneNewsline	LATIN FLAVOUR	The Latin Dance Cempetition, held on Sunday 14th May at Lush Lounge….Latin Dances like Salsa, Rumba, Jive, Cha-cha-Cha, Merengue. Not to forget a salsa performance by Shelly and Vijay Athma.

2006	9thJune	EastSide Plus	SHALL WE DANCE	Apart from teaching the Latin American Ballroom dance ( Rumba, Chachacha, Salsa, Jive and Merengue ), they have also Introduced Club Salsa, also known as Rueda.

2006	12thJuly	Maharashtra Herald	SALSA EVENING	First runner-ups Apeksha Shah and Suraj Agarwal

2006	13thJuly	TimesCity	DANCING AWAY THE HOLIDAYS	A week long workshop organized by Vijay Athma’s LatinDanceClub ( LDC ) saw many Students try out some Salsa moves.

2007	3rdJan	Femina	AN ODE TO…POWER WOMEN STYLE DIVAS WOMAN SPIRIT	A step out of the ordinary

2007	7thJan	Maharashtra Herald	RISE AND “ FALLS	Classical may continue and Bollywood may Pose a competition but Salsa is sweeping Pune off its feet